A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Bucks

On his birthday, Peter takes his family to play mini-golf , but soon the owner of the establishment, Bob Fanland, asks them to leave, as Peter causes a lot of problems to other visitors. Peter is upset, the more he remembers his former classmate Bob as a complete loser.

Chris gives his father a present: a beautiful picture, but Peter uses it only to close the broken window in the car. Thus, the picture accidentally catches the eye of a certain seller of paintings Antonio Monatti, who convinces Peter to take his son to Manhattan , where he could become a famous artist.

Peter presents Chris Antonio with his family and walks around the city , admiring his greatness. Meanwhile, Monatti dyes Chris's hair green, dresses him in stylish clothes, gives the pseudonym “Cristobelle” and presents the model Kate Moss . Gradually, Antonio instills in Chris the idea that he should stay away from his father, "because he is a pig." When Chris reluctantly agrees to this, Peter refuses him and focuses on fostering Meg's talent for emulating bird singing.

Lois tricks (mentioning the strippers who will give out free tacos ) pulls Peter to the first exhibition of Chris. It turns out that all his masterpieces are dedicated to his father, Peter. Antonio and the “ art crowd” immediately reject Chris for being a “ three-dimensional ”.

Before the family leaves for Quahog, Calvin Klein notices Stewie and invites him to become the face of a new line of designer diapers. At the end of the episode, you can see a poster with Stewie pictured in her diaper that says, “Stewie Griffin says: I can go anywhere in my Calvin $” ( “Stewie Griffin says: I can go anywhere in my 'Calvin $'” )

Script writer: Craig Hoffman.

Director: Gavin Dell.

Guest celebrities: Dee Bradley Baker , Candice Bergen (in the role of Murphy Brown from the eponymous series ), Face Ford (in the role of Corky Sherwood), Charles Cimbru (in the role of Jim Dial) and Joe Regalbyuto .

Cultural References

• The title of the episode mimics the saying “It’s better to see once than hear a hundred times” ( “A picture is worth a thousand words” ).
• Remembering his classmate Bob Fanland as a school loser, Peter says that “even his nasty cousin Katie Griffin also achieved something in life” (“ even my own obnoxious cousin Kathy Griffin is famous ”).
• In the Amusement Park, Stewie sees an ugly clown toy and says: “How awful! Like Stephen King ! ” This is a reference to King ’s novel It (novel ) ( 1986 ), where the main negative character is the clown. King himself immediately appears in the sidebar, exhausting himself from the plot for his next work.
• Brian claims to be familiar with renowned artist Andy Warhol . Andy Warhol will be mentioned in the next episode .
• Kate Moss in the episode is depicted two-dimensional , which parodies her thinness.
• In the episode, it turns out that Peter “sold his soul to the devil in 1976 for tickets to the Bee Gees concert.”
• The sidebar shows the play “ Uncle Vanya ” by A.P. Chekhov .
• Another sidebar shows Walt Disney sexually molested Minnie Mouse .
• To show Chris’s talent, Peter suggests cutting off his ear. See Art. Art. Vincent van Gogh , Self Portrait with Cut Off Ear and Tube and Van Gogh Syndrome .
• Lois tells Peter that he is "witty like Murphy Brown ."
• The scene in the amusement park when Stewie is marching with a gun is a parody of the film "The All-Metal Shell " when a sergeant forces recruits to march.

Trivia

• Starting from this episode, Meg Griffin is constantly voiced by Mila Kunis . In the 3rd episode of the 2nd season, she was taken for this role temporarily .
• Attracted by Meg's chirping, Big Bird from Sesame Street is coming up to her.
• Calvin Klein in the episode is called “heterosexual fashion designer” .

• A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Bucks on the Internet Movie Database
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